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From wire reports • Tuesday February 18, 2014 7:48 AM

BELLEFONTAINE — Police in western Ohio say a Marine was killed over the weekend when she
was hit by a car that didn’t stop.

Police are seeking the car that hit Monica Plank, 34, of Stafford, Va. She was struck while
walking about 12:15 a.m. Sunday, after leaving a restaurant in Bellefontaine in Logan County,
northwest of Columbus.

Plank, a Marine gunnery sergeant, died hours later in a Columbus hospital.

Police said Plank was walking north in the outside northbound lane of traffic because of snow-
and ice-covered sidewalks. Her husband, Chris Plank, a native of the area who is a Marine sergeant,
was 100 to 200 feet behind her.